New Orleans: Black Churches Put a Focus on AIDS

From CDC National Prevention Information Network

February 28, 2003

The persuasive power of the pulpit is the tool AIDS
prevention activists are using for the upcoming 14th annual Black
Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS, held March 8-14.
In New Orleans, the social service agency Brotherhood Inc. will
host the observance for the second year. Also, eight local
churches are participating in the week by holding special
services to educate the public and raise awareness of HIV/AIDS,
which has disproportionately affected the African-American
community. "We try to remove the stigma that exists in the
African-American church. AIDS is in every community, every
gender, every race. People who are infected or affected by HIV
[should] have the church as a haven where they can go without
being afraid," said Mary James, Brotherhood's faith-based
coordinator.

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